Any suggestions for interesting (even exciting) Victorian novels that relatively successfully overcome those limitations?  All I'm familiar with is some Dickens — who can be dry — and various failed attempts at reading Hardy.

@avclub-bf3eb25e65e1f87dab76829f15a0907a:disqus, yup, that's the one.  It's like the emotional opposite of the Trainspotting scene though, insofar as I laughed out loud instead of feeling sick to my stomach.  The show ended with a "The story you have seen is true" text card but the execution was all just so…

@avclub-23207f541a152a7152949accf8e1bce5:disqus, you've sold me.  I may even start it tonight.  It's too bad S1-S6 don't appear to be covered here, though…  Actually, that might be a blessing in disguise because invariably I end up getting spoiled in the comments.  With The Shield, I read a spoiler here a few months…

Is it just me or has House of Cards seemed to be gestating for so long that — excuse me for having a Pepe Silvia moment here — I'm beginning to think that there is no House of Cards. 

I think there's plenty of genuine value to the Airing of Grievances and I've tried in past years to convince my friends to do it, but no one bites.  And it's not really something you can unilaterally do.  It'd be awesome to have one day a year when it's acceptable to tell everyone else all the problems you have with…

@avclub-d892cfee412f049ca3da7ada13bcf9ff:disqus, I had the Celestials whip up a time machine.

@avclub-605302b7b2612ace0b5716f3285b7ba0:disqus is probably just a filthy Canadian.

That is a great perspective, actually.  I'm already getting kind of sad seeing Happy Endings at episode 17 of 22, Justified at 8 of 13, HIMYM at 18 of 22, Parks&Rec at 17 of 22, etc.  There is a lot of Community left, and it's coming back at a time when other shows are wrapping up or exiting sweeps for frustrating…

I processed that as, "more than we'll… never know", just as I do to all similarly-phrased comments.

@avclub-c404a5adbf90e09631678b13b05d9d7a:disqus and @avclub-0da7b2945e9148fed0a61ba72bfb017e:disqus, it actually got more ridiculous after that point.  Then it became kind of sad too when the degenerate junkie in his suit responded to the cops grilling him about smoking the herb: "In a couple of years things might…

I've seen a fair amount of All in the Family — it's decent — and Taxi always struck me as just OK… although I haven't seen the latter in a few years now, so my opinion might change if I revisit it.

You might wanna get that checked out.  Once the sarcasm goes, nothing else matters.

@avclub-eac75edc18b8546c46893fe4b75ab995:disqus, the pendulum is swinging towards The Shield.  Sons of Anarchy can wait.  Thanks.

I'm imagining you rummaging through the Wal-Mart discount bin — ignoring the box art and titles, instead reading the fine print of the back covers to see what company made the show, and then Wiki'ing that name on your phone: "Blackface Productions was a television production company?  Fuck that noise."  And then…

One question I've always had about The Shield is how serialized is it?  Obviously there's some forward momentum and season- and series-long arcs, but does every episode have a new criminal/obstacle?

@avclub-bca3531762af8a993c4f60c48fd5e33b:disqus, I agree that comedies definitely do age better.  I'm working through Newsradio right now and am thinking about doing Cheers properly.  I didn't always laugh out loud when Cheers was on in syndication (and it has seemed to disappear from TV in the last few years), but…

I had to look up this episode… I'm watching it now: "We know that practically every kid we pick up on LSD has marijuana in his pocket. We know that we arrest more than 14,000 addicts a year on heroin, cocaine, methadrine, pills, you name it — and they all began with marijuana… we don't claim that every person who…

I haven't seen much of Taxi so I can't really say much about that, but my comments were meant to be about more than just slipping in references to genitals or allusions to swearing or things of that nature past censors.  Sure, Seinfeld did things like that, but it's ultimately a superficial comedy (that's not a knock;…

A couple of points… first, I think a lot of pre-Seinfeld TV suffered from being too sanitized.  From what I have seen of older shows, they just did not touch upon topics that were as 'controversial' as some of the subject matter on Seinfeld.  I'm thinking of things like George being pretty happy at Susan's death, or…

Tell the world my story: I just wanted to watch it all, beginning to end.